Browse Items (6 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: Croaghbrack townland Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Location: Croaghbrack Tags: commonly occurring location, Croaghbrack, Croaghbrack townland, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names Croaghbrack Townland Croaghbrack is in the Electoral Division of Templecarn, in Civil Parish of Templecarn, in the Barony of Tirhugh, in the County of Donegal Croaghbrack is on Logainm.ie: Croaghbrack. Croaghbrack has an area of: -6,974,912 m² / 697.49… Tags: Barony of Tirhugh, Croaghbrack townland, townland The mountains and hills of Templecarn "Of mountains and hills there is a great number. The whole face of the country indeed consists of hills separated by narrow valleys..." Tags: agriculture, cattle, Croaghbrack, Croaghbrack townland, Crocknacunny, hills, Lieutenant W. Lancey, Mindilpier, mountains, North West Farming Society, ordnance survey, Parish of Templecarne, pasturage, Royal Irish Academy, rural landscape, Rusheen, Templecarne, Termon Magrath "Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg" "Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg, in places apparently very accessible to man..." Tags: Badger (Meles meles), birdlife, Croaghbrack townland, curlews, eagle, Eagle's Rock Island, fauna, grouse, hares, islands, kites, lake, Lieutenant W. Lancey, ordnance survey, partridges, Royal Irish Academy, snipe, Templecarne, upper lake "A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude" A description of the timeless nature of Lough Derg, a window into the early days of Irish Christianity Tags: Alice Curtayne, beauty, Croaghbrack townland, mountains, sunrise, sunset, timelessness, twentieth century, view, view east, view west, vista Water-Horses "Long ago the people used to send their horses to the mountain for the summer months. One day a man was going to the mountain for his horse as he required him to do some work at home. When he went up to the mountain he saw all the horses… Tags: Croaghbrack townland, fairies, Folklore, horse, lake, Lough Kilraway, mountains, Oral History, supernatural, water, water horse Output Formats atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, mobile-json, omeka-xml, rss2